Life Expectancy

[ysengrin]

It's statistically based around American data, and is a bit more serious than the usual meme ... the test itself is here, with background on it here. It also lets you know how changes can improve the number.

Mine? 76.86 years, and I could get the biggest gains by:

• exercising more (2.8 yrs),


• sleeping less (.5 yrs),


• lowering stress (as if I could! .4 yrs),


• and drinking more (0.3 yrs).

EDIT: some of the factors I can't do anything about - a family history of several ailments.

Comments

[megadog.livejournal.com]

I get

Life Expectancy: 85.98
Lower Quartile : 77.97
Median Lifetime: 87.64
Upper Quartile : 95.53

and it really seems drinking more is the best thing to do. Perhaps I'll have two glasses of wine with my meal this evening?

[graafen]

I got:

Life Expectancy: 80.62
Lower Quartile : 73.02
Median Lifetime: 84.00
Upper Quartile : 91.94

Maybe I should be having a couple of snifters of liquor each evening. I've certainly got enough of the stuff...

[polrbear.livejournal.com]

My numbers are similar to yours. Getting two or three more years for all that exercise hardly seems worth it. :)

[ysengrin.livejournal.com]

Well, I want to make time for exercise - at least hiking, since I'm a stones throw from two excellent redwood forests. The costume/prop workshop doesn't give you much of a workout, and I'm not costuming anywhere near as much since we're between haunts ... less computer game time, more outdoors time is good :)

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Mmm. I wonder if you're supposed to put in "married" or "not married" if your partner's the same gender as you so you can't legally get married due to rampant religious fascism?

Also, I kinda miss a "not in the USA" option for the "I reside in" question. And the "thousands of miles you drive in an automobile a year" question does not allow you to input more than 99 - not that that's a problem for me, but I know people who drive considerably more than that.

As for the "I have XYZ drinks a day" question, I assume that refers to alcoholic drinks, right?

Anyhow... all in all, I get 72.97 (if I tell them I live in Virginia, anyway), and all in all, I could increase that by 7.21. Pretty much average, I'd say, although "Not having any sexual partner has minimized your risk of AIDS" is rather depressing. >_>

[ysengrin.livejournal.com]

I think 'married' is 'monagamous', though I could be mistaken. I'd take it that way.

Think 99+, if that helps :) Car fetishism aside, most americans drive far less than that.

Yep, that's alcoholic drinks. Non-alcoholic drinks are referred to as water, milk, tea, coffee and the general category soda.

The sex factor is apparently pretty small - become celebrate would net me less than one-tenth of a year.

I didn't even think about changing the state of residence - wonder how much difference that makes?

[ysengrin.livejournal.com]

Wow - the move that we're contemplating adds three years to my life expectancy.

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Neat. :) But also rather surprising - I wouldn't have thought that moving to a different state makes that big a difference.

[ysengrin.livejournal.com]

... and that's "celibate" not "celebrate". Dang spell checker.

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Good question - I wouldn't be surprised if your life expectancy went down if you said you're from New York, though. ;)

On a side note, here's an interesting map showing (average) life expectancies broken down by countries. Quite interesting.

Oh, and even more unrelated... love your post icon. :)

[kaysho.livejournal.com]

Try realage.com, too, for a test that offers much more specific advice on things you can actually control. You just have to put up with their hawking their products at you while you do it. :)

This calculator's advice to me includes the following little bits of amusement:

If you do not drive, your life expectancy would be 0.08 years longer

Yeah, but I'd spend a lot more than 0.08 years the rest of my life getting where I'm going. :)

If you do not have any sexual partner, your life expectancy would be 2.20 years longer

But if I uncheck the box that says I'm married, my "score" also gets hurt ... so the obvious answer is purely celibate marriage. Screw that. :)